WordPress + Textpattern = WordPattern

Matt announced yesterday on WordPress.org that WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces. It will now be called WordPattern.

On behalf of the WordPress community, I’m proud to announce a merger we’ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen’s dog — WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. “WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.”

As with any great union, there were compromises involved. “I’m going all-Georgia, all the time. And blue is the new yellow.” said Dean Allen. Matt Mullenweg mused “Ten custom fields should be enough for anybody!”

We have a list of new features, downloads, and much more available on WordPattern.org. Our respective websites are being decommisioned so it’s best to go there for new information.

Features of WordPattern

4 Minute Install

The latest InstallMark™ benchmarks clock the WordPattern install process in at 3:47 – that’s a 25% improvement over WordPress 2.0, and a whopping 41% faster than Textpattern.

Bjax

A brand new engine for dynamic web pages, built on a hybrid Flash/Rails-based architecture. This is the Web 2.1.

CMSMS

The core of WordPattern is its CMS-management system, capable of controlling multiple CMS application simultaneously.

Invisible URLs

By combining the powerful Clean URL features of both WordPress and Textpattern, we’ve created URLs so clean they’re invisible.

TrackForward

Automatically alert other blogs about content on your site they ought to link to.

Gidgets

Like widgets, only cuter.

Many people believe that the WordPress Team has played a April Fool’s joke. What do you believe?

Update: It’s a joke. I downloaded WordPattern. It only contains a index.php file with text:


< ?php

#FIXME: this needs work
echo "insert content here";

?>